Lana and Kate sitting together were a lovely sight. Lana was showing a lot of leg, and between them there was plenty of cleavage, wide smiles, red lip...s and beautiful expressionable faces. They each had a couple of glasses of dry sherry before dinner and were in a marvellous mood. Lana eventually started to prepare dinner and Kate did whatever she could to help. At one point I looked out into the night and saw in the street light that it was snowing heavily, and probably had been since just. I’m here to help,’ Darcy said quietly. He undid the dog collar and when he was untying her hands Sophie asked, ‘Who are you?’ ‘It’s best you don’t know.’ He’d already told Alan and Marlene it was best she never knew of his involvement. She cried, ‘Hurry, that awful man will be returning? He hasn’t harmed me but has repeatedly fingered me in a disgusting manner.’ ‘Right we need to get well away from him.’ Darcy thought of trashing the place but the noise of that might attract attention and. ‘I don’t particularly like that either. Always the same silly questions. Will you go home in between?’ She shook her head. Home…no place like home, probably, if you really had one. She swallowed. ‘I’ll see if I can find something to eat in town,’ she said. Mo looked at her critically. ‘Are you alright?’ he said. ‘You look rather blue. Can I help or anything?’ Anne shook her head. Damn — someone being kind… She got tears in her eyes. ‘I’m fine,’ she said. ‘Really.’ ‘Honestly?’ Mo asked, and then. I went in for something else, darling... to see someone." Sure, sure, you always go in for something else," he said, shaking his handsome head skeptically. "But someone always manages to sell you something while you're there. Whatever it is, you're going back into town tomorrow and get your money back. I don't work forty hours a week in the Alexander Building so that we'll starve when we're old, Kathy. It's about time you started remembering that."Kathy raised her eyes to silently protest his.